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Here is a Wordle "word cloud" creation of our Grad@Grad descriptors.







And here's one created from another subject near and dear to my heart: the ISTE Technology Standards for Students.

http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007.htm

Shift happens 4.0 is the official new update to the video "Shift Happens," first produced in 2006. This edition, published in September, focuses on media convergence. The original author, Karl Fisch, is a teacher at Arapahoe High School, Centennial, Colorado. While this version is more media-centric, Fisch claims it still has meaning for today's educaton world. More in Karl's own words at the following link: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2009/09/did-you-know-40-economist-media.html Enjoy!

Here are two links to a favorite resource of mine, http://www.edutopia.org/. Although Edutopia's focus is public education, I think you will recognize some terminology from our very own models of Jesuit education: reflection, social-emotional learning, and the human touch (cura personalis) side of teaching!


http://www.edutopia.org/teacher-development-introduction-video


How to Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning Edutopia

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Below is a video originally created by educator Karl Fisch, of Arapahoe High School, Co, in 2006, to start a discussion about 21st Century education. Since then millions more have seen it, started their own discussions, and even recreated the video! Here is a more recent rendition. I encourage you to consider and, I dare say, even comment below on what implications this information may have for us professionally.



While you're here, feel free to check out some of the other resources on this page to see what your colleagues are up to, as well as share some of your own ideas.

Please reflect upon and then share your comments on the benefits you have derived from participation in the REAL Tech program at Loyola Academy. In particular, I am interested in knowing how you feel the program has facilitated your meeting or exceeding National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers in one or more of the following areas:

• Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
• Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
• Model digital-age work and learning
• Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
• Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
• Implement the IPP, Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (LA extra credit!)

Further information about the standards can be found at:
http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS

Thanks so much for your thoughts! As we move further into 21st Century education, I think it is important that we keep such lofty goals within sight.

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